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James Knight

@badbadpoet.bsky.social
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Poet, artist, performer and publisher based in the UK. Prolific maker of visual poetry. Recent books: COSMIC HORROR (Hem Press), WHAT’S THIS FLESH? (Intergraphia), WASTES / WRAITHS (Atomic Bohemian). t.co/QoN4GHLvNE

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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Trump is a simple animal. Everything he is, he accuses others of being. Everything he isn’t, he claims to be.
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Four visual poems from my BEOWULF project, depicting the protagonist’s fight with a dragon, are up at Ex-Puritan: ex-puritan.ca/beowulf-gren...
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Beowulf: Grendel's Mother's Revenge
Read James Knight's "Beowulf: Grendel's Mother's Revenge" in Issue 74: Summer 2026 of The Ex-Puritan, then check out The Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Pages from WASTES / WRAITHS, available from Atomic Bohemian. www.atomicbohemian.com/product-page...
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Pages from WASTES / WRAITHS, available from Atomic Bohemian. www.atomicbohemian.com/product-page...
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Needler. #141sqmi
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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Be sure to check out this amazing work by James www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-2-2026...
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Grendel’s Flight by James Knight — Full House Literary
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Great to have some new work in the current issue of @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social : a diptych from my re-imagining of Beowulf as a series of visual poems. Do check out the excellent work throughout the issue! www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-2-2026
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Issue 2 - 2026 — Full House Literary
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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Yay, it's issue day! What a pleasure this one was to put together. The amazing image featured on the cover is by Gordon Massman. Go to the issue by clicking the link in the bio or copy and paste this link: www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-2-2026
Full House Literary Issue 2 cover image. It features an image of a ballerina with lots of different shapes and colours. It has a sticker with text saying 'now live'.
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Some visual poems, all part of a series called 141sqmi. I’m sure you can work out what they’re about. #141sqmi
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Selfie - a visual poem. #141sqmi #visualpoem #visualpoetry
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Removal - a visual poem #141sqmi
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
NINE HURTS - a film poem
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Deathweb- a visual poem #141sqmi
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Abandoned - a visual poem. #141sqmi
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
happy thirty-third birthday sale, above/ground press! robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/07/happ...
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happy thirty-third birthday sale, above/ground press!
You probably already know that July 9th was the thirty-third anniversary of above/ground press , yes? And that first ever above/ground press...
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
LAB - a visual poem
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Polyphemus
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I saw Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey yesterday. It was utterly brilliant and inspired this visual poem.
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
NINE HURTS - a film poem
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
American multidisciplinary artist Kiki Smith Sungrazer VI, 2019 (bronze) #KikiSmith #Sculpture #ContemporaryArt
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Kim Fucking Hyesoon
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Thrilled to have received my author copies of WASTES / WRAITHS. You can get a copy here. www.atomicbohemian.com/product-page...
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Thrilled to have received my author copies of WASTES / WRAITHS. You can get a copy here. www.atomicbohemian.com/product-page...
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
If you’re in London on 25 June and want to experience some contemporary Austrian poetry, some of it accompanied by the antics of the Bird King, this is the event for you: www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/austria26
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Remember, kids: if you tell the truth about the history of the Middle East or what is currently happening in Gaza and the West Bank, you are a despicable anti-Semite.
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
WASTES / WRAITHS 'A ghostly presence stalks this complex and unsettling work. We wither in the face of our own atrophy. A pulsing repetition infuses the text with urgency, adding tension inside the claustrophobic effect of the words.'. www.atomicbohemian.com/product-page...
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wastes / wraiths - James Knight | Atomic Bohemian
Released 22 May 2026 // Poetry Pamphlet // 52 pages 'Here is James Knight, easily misunderstood. He wants you well, but there are textures that need capturing and so the text of that sits betwixt visu...
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Surrealism isn’t a style. It’s an attitude of total revolt. James Tate and Charles Simic wrote delightfully quirky poems, but there is no trace of surrealism anywhere in their essentially conservative work.
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
European Poetry Festival, Austrian event, London, 25 June: a collaboration with Andreas Unterweger www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/austria26
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
European Poetry Festival, Austrian event, London, 25 June: a collaboration with Andreas Unterweger www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/austria26
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Julia @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
My debut art & desire-filled pamphlet ‘Nasty Objects’ is officially out & flirting! 🎉 My thanks once again to the marvellous @salopress.bsky.social & my outrageously lovely endorsers @wendycaitlin.bsky.social & Charley Barnes. 👇 www.salopress.com/store/nasty-...
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Nasty Objects - Julia Biggs
This is a show that looks for trouble…Nasty Objects is a desire-filled ‘exhibition guide’, an invitation to wander through gallery spaces where both real and imagined artistic engagements with erotici...
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Looking forward to my collaboration with Andreas Unterweger on the Austrian evening of the European Poetry Festival in London next month. Tix here www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/austria26
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
WASTES / WRAITHS 'A ghostly presence stalks this complex and unsettling work. We wither in the face of our own atrophy. A pulsing repetition infuses the text with urgency, adding tension inside the claustrophobic effect of the words.'. www.atomicbohemian.com/product-page...
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wastes / wraiths - James Knight | Atomic Bohemian
Released 22 May 2026 // Poetry Pamphlet // 52 pages 'Here is James Knight, easily misunderstood. He wants you well, but there are textures that need capturing and so the text of that sits betwixt visu...
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Cor Wijtman @corwijt48.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
. Small correction I had two cardboard passe-partouts left over. .
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Looking forward to my collaboration with Andreas Unterweger on the Austrian evening of the European Poetry Festival in London next month. Tix here www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/austria26
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Later this month.
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Moreau’s Philosophy is here, beautifully produced by Asatami Legesse Edizioni. DM if you’d like a copy.
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
If @incastellated.bsky.social made TTRPGs, this is what they’d look like.
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Some work in progress
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Moreau’s Philosophy is here, beautifully produced by Asatami Legesse Edizioni. DM if you’d like a copy.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Sickening. A crime. And no one will be held to account.
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Israeli police kill two young Palestinian boys and their parents in West Bank
Mother, father and brothers aged five and seven shot in the head as they returned from Ramadan shopping trip
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Architext
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Moreau’s Philosophy, an aberrant offshoot of Moreau’s Doctored Bodies, is out soon with Italian publisher Asatami Legesse Edizioni
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Cor Wijtman @corwijt48.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
. series pen with headwind 25 .
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Massive Bacon vibes here - SCREAMING DOPE
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
A poem from my forthcoming collection with Atomic Bohemian, wastes / wraiths, is up at @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/11/f...
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from wastes / wraiths by James Knight
in air thick with lack of light deep stink of hot mammal and stabbing breath looped like my passage through this space what is it we fear when images come to mind do we sense something that inhabit…
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
WHAT’S THIS FLESH? Illness, the body, and fragmented converstions overheard on the hospital ward. Available from @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social intergraphia.cargo.site/James-Knight
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James Knight — Intergraphia Books
James Knight What’s this flesh? What’s this flesh? explores the terrain of illness, interrogating the innate strangeness of the...
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imc1209.bsky.social @imc1209.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I am truly honored to be able to publish such wonderful artists... today we have @badbadpoet.bsky.social live on @thearsonista.bsky.social with a poem that'll leave a mark. burninghousepress.com/2026/02/11/f...
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from wastes / wraiths by James Knight
in air thick with lack of light deep stink of hot mammal and stabbing breath looped like my passage through this space what is it we fear when images come to mind do we sense something that inhabit…
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
A poem from my forthcoming collection with Atomic Bohemian, wastes / wraiths, is up at @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/11/f...
burninghousepress.com
from wastes / wraiths by James Knight
in air thick with lack of light deep stink of hot mammal and stabbing breath looped like my passage through this space what is it we fear when images come to mind do we sense something that inhabit…
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Leia Butler @leiabutler.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I am so excited about this. The collection is super visual and incorporates scans of swatches of different make up materials.
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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
WHAT’S THIS FLESH? Illness, the body, and fragmented converstions overheard on the hospital ward. Available from @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social intergraphia.cargo.site/James-Knight
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James Knight — Intergraphia Books
James Knight What’s this flesh? What’s this flesh? explores the terrain of illness, interrogating the innate strangeness of the...
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